Third Grade Bibliographical Format

1. Follow the punctuation in the examples exactly.
2. Be sure to put the author's last name before the first name, with the two names separated by a comma.
3. If you look up information about a person in an encyclopedia, that person's name should also be written last name first.
4. If you cannot find some information, such as author, just leave it out.

 

For a book:

1. Author's name, last name first.
2. Title of book, underlined .
3. Copyright date.

   Landau, Elaine.  Sea Horses.  1999.

For an article from a print encyclopedia:

1. The subject you looked up, in quotation marks.
2. Full title of encyclopedia, underlined .
3. Copyright date.

   "Jaguar."  International Wildlife Encyclopedia.  1991
      
   "Washington, George." The World Book Encyclopedia.  2000.
      
      

 

For an article from an encyclopedia on CD-ROM:

1. The subject you looked up, in quotation marks.
2. Full title of encyclopedia, underlined .
3. Copyright date.
4. CD-ROM.

   "Earthquake."  Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.  1994. CD-ROM.
      
   "Dog."  First Connections: The Golden Book Encyclopedia. 
    1995.  CD-ROM.
    
   "Tiger."  The San Diego Zoo Presents The Animals!  1994.  CD-ROM.
      

 

For an encyclopedia from an online service:

1. The subject you looked up, in quotation marks.
2. Full title of encyclopedia, underlined .
3. Name of the online service you used.
4. Date you visited (see the example)
5. Name of the online service you used.

      
   "Panda."  Compton's Living Encyclopedia. 23 November 1999
   America Online.  
         

For an article from the World Wide Web:

1. Name of the author, if you can find it, last name first.
2. Title of the article, in quotes.
3. Title of the home page, if available, underlined.
4. Date you visited (see the examples)
5. First part of the http address (see the examples), in brackets.

   Schaller, George B.  "Tiger."World Book Online. 16 December 1999
    <http://www.worldbookonline.com>.
      
   "Cheetah." The Cyber Zoomobile. 23 November 1998
    <http://www.primenet.com/>.
      
   "Factoids: Polar Bears."  Environmental News Network.
   26 January 1998 <http://www.enn.com/>.
      
   Arnett, Bill. "The Moon."  The Nine Planets. 21 May 1998 
   <http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/>.   

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